List of recurring non-robot characters from Futurama

''This article discusses non-robot recurring characters. For robotic recurring characters, see List of recurring robot characters from Futurama.

Futurama's recurring characters:

Celebrity heads

In the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage", Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. A recurring feature of Futurama was use of this fanciful idea to allow guest appearances by 20th- and 21st-century celebrities, established as early as the first episode when Fry and Bender hide in "The Head Museum" and meet the head of Leonard Nimoy. Other celebrity heads can be seen in the background, including that of series co-creator Matt Groening. A wall display titled "U.S. PRESIDENTS" hangs over 22 jars, containing presidential heads ranging from George Washington (showing but not explaining how persons who died before the head-in-a-jar technology was developed can still benefit from it) to Bill Clinton. Fry accidentally knocks over the jar containing the head of Richard Nixon (voiced by Billy West), angering the former president. The presidents (along with the heads of losing candidates Ross Perot, Lyndon Larouche, Walter Mondale and Bob Dole, among others) would later reappear in the episode "A Head in the Polls". Celebrity heads who have played major or recurring roles are listed below:

Al Gore

(voiced by Al Gore) - First emperor of the Moon, he also appears (fully intact) when Fry returns to the year 2000 as Vice President of the United States and leader of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, tasked by the US Constitution to preserve the space-time continuum.

By the year 3000, he appears on the five-hundred dollar bill. He claims to have invented the environment and is the author of Earth in the Balance and the much more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth, in which he explains that the environment must be protected from global warming and dark wizards.

The real-life Gore has said that Futurama is his favorite show. His daughter, Kristin, was a writer for the show in its later seasons. Gore has also voiced the cartoon version of himself in the "An Inconvenient Truth" promotional video^*, along with John DiMaggio (the voice of Bender) and Billy West (the narrator).

Lucy Liu

(voiced by Lucy Liu) - First appeared as a captive of "Kidnappster.com", an internet company that specialized in downloading illegal copies (in obvious reference to the controversial Napster) of celebrity personalities into blank robots, who would then assume their voice and appearance ("I Dated a Robot"). After she was rescued, she convinced Fry that the copying process was an invasion of her privacy and rights and he reluctantly deactivated his Liu-bot. Liu's head then fell in love with Bender, and briefly appeared in a later episode ("Love and Rocket") stored in Bender's compartment.

Leonard Nimoy

(voiced by Leonard Nimoy) - In addition to the pilot episode, Nimoy's head appears in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", along with the heads of other cast members of the original Star Trek: William Shatner, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig, all voiced by themselves. An animated version of DeForest Kelley (by then deceased) appears but does not speak. The episode also contains a brief cameo by the head of The Next Generation actor Jonathan Frakes.

Richard Nixon

(voiced by Billy West) - In "A Head in the Polls", Richard Nixon's head broke with head-in-a-jar convention and achieved mobility by having his jar mounted on the robotic body of Bender (who had sold his body for a large sum following a spike in titanium prices). He then ran for President of Earth in 3000, winning by a single vote (robots without a felony conviction, which excludes Bender, can vote and were widely impressed by Nixon's head's robotic "charisma"). Nixon's head returned Bender's body the night before the election, blackmailed by an audio recording Bender had made of Nixon's head ranting about the stupidity of voters and his intent, if elected, to "go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place" and to sell children's organs to zoos for meat. He managed to quickly secure a much larger robotic body, smashing his way into the White House after his election. Oddly, neither he or any other celebrity head used a robot body again.

Nixon's head's administration is marked by a violent and aggressive foreign policy, frequently entering into wars which have little or no purpose, and which occasionally backfire, leading to Earth being invaded by alien forces. Nixon's head is a common character throughout the series, providing humour through his 1960's outlook on life and his aggressive, unpredictable persona. Nixon's head's vice president appears to be the headless body of Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's first historical VP. Agnew's body, however, was given to Ogden Wernstrom as a form of payment in "Crimes of the Hot". In the final episode ("The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"), Nixon's head was pulled into Robot Hell by the Robot Devil.

George Washington

George Washington's head appears briefly in the pilot episode and has a speaking part in "A Head in the Polls", admitting that just as Bender had hocked his body, Washington had hocked his (legendary) wooden teeth for "booze money". His speech is anachronistic and incorrect, as he says "Thou," but where "Thine" would be more appropriate. Washington's head later reappears in "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", as Fry attempts to re-educate the other Planet Express employees, not realizing their sudden stupidity is being caused by the malevolent Brainspawn. Himself stupefied, Washington mistook himself for Thomas Jefferson.

Brain Slugs

The Brain Slugs are small fist-sized aliens that have a habit of attaching themselves to human heads like mind control devices, reducing their hosts to a zombie-like state. They may be a homage to Robert A. Heinlein's slug-like parasites featured in The Puppet Masters. Their first appearance shows them as sponsors of the political Brain Slug Party, favoring "unreasonably huge subsidies to the brain slug planet". Their plan for the working man is to attach brain slugs to him. ("A Head in the Polls")

They were later featured in the episode "Raging Bender" when Hermes came back from vacation with a brain slug attached to his head and the clear intent to expose the other workers, including ordering them to go to the Brain Slug planet and walk around not wearing helmets. Seeing through this ruse, the crew instead went to the movies. At one point, the brain slug was knocked off, freeing Hermes until Bender helpfully replaced it. Another brain slug attached briefly to Fry dies of starvation, as a joke regarding Fry's intelligence (or lack thereof). Note: Fry's brain doesn't give off the delta brain wave which everyone else on Earth does ("The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", as discussed below under Brain Spawn). It could be the lack of this brain wave that caused Fry's Brain Slug to die.

Using a garlic shampoo is suggested as a protective measure.

Brainspawn

An evil race of flying telekinetic brains that came into existence one millisecond after the Big Bang. Their main enemies are the Nibblonians. Their aeons-long goal is to destroy all other intelligent life, since the thoughts of other beings "screech at them like the forced laughs of a billion art-house movie patrons." Their method of operation is to swarm a planet, using their "stupefaction fields" to render all inhabitants too stupid to resist. Then they absorb the planet's collected knowledge and destroy it.

Fry, being uniquely immune to the effect (due to becoming his own grandfather in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well") manages to drive them from Earth ("The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"). Later, under the direction of the Nibblonians, he planted a "quantum interface bomb" on the Brainspawn's space station/knowledge repository, the "Infosphere", sending it and the Brainspawn to an alternate dimension from which, the Nibblonians believe, there is no escape ("The Why of Fry"). No-one affected by the Brainspawn's stupefaction field remembers it and Fry's memory was erased/suppressed by Nibbler, thus no human is aware that the Brainspawn exist.

Father Changstein-El-Gamal

(voiced by David Herman) - A priest in the First Amalgamated Church. Father Changstein-El-Gamal counsels Fry in "Godfellas" and later presides over Fry's funeral in "The Sting".

Dwight Conrad

(voiced by Bumper Robinson) - 12 year-old son of Hermes Conrad and LaBarbara Conrad. He has a friendship with Cubert Farnsworth. Dwight takes after his father in many ways, finding accounting and being a novice bureaucrat more entertaining than having fun. Dwight sports dreadlocks and a T-shirt with the Jamaican flag on it. In the episode The Route of All Evil a bully throws Dwight's lunch pack into a black hole he had made for his science project. Dwight is shown to scream "My Manwich!" in a similar fashion to his father Hermes who screamed the same word when Bender used the sandwich.

LaBarbara Conrad

(voiced by Dawnn Lewis) - Hermes Conrad's wife. She is much taller than Hermes and is usually seen wearing revealing clothes. LaBarbara was previously married to the tall, muscular Barbados Slim, another limbo Olympian who won the gold medal in the 3004 Olympics. She accompanied her husband on trips to the Starship Titanic and to Spa 5, a "spa" which turned out to be a slave labor camp. She and her husband often refer to each other only as "husband" and "wife." In "The Route of All Evil", it is seen that Hermes and LaBarbara share a sumptuous home and enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle.

Cookieville Orphans

The orphans from the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium (where Leela spent her childhood) were first featured in the episode "The Cyber House Rules". Bender briefly adopted twelve of them, seeing a chance for profit in government stipends, but returned them when feeding them proved too expensive.

Some of the orphans also appear as background characters in other episodes, including "The Why Of Fry" (while on a Cookieville field trip to a skating rink); "Leela's Homeworld" (cheering for Leela after she was crowned "Orphan of the Year"); and in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV" (as "cool kids" attending Cubert and Dwight's birthday party).

Albert

(Voiced by Kath Soucie) - Like Sally and Nina, Albert was mainly featured in the episode "The Cyber House Rules", where Leela rejected him, saying he was "kind of fatty". He has been seen smoking cigars and is known to drink espresso. Unlike the other orphans, he was not seen in The Why of Fry.

Nina

(Voiced by Kath Soucie) - Nina is one of the more talkative orphans, taking it upon herself to introduce all the orphans by name when prompted. She is one of Sally's best friends. In the episode "Leela's Homeworld", Nina puts on an eye patch pretending to be Leela. This prompts Albert to cover both his eyes to be a "double-Leela", after which he ran face-first into a wall.

Sally

(Voiced by Nicole St. John) - Sally is a mutant orphan with a third ear on her forehead. Like Leela's eye, she is teased about it. Leela wanted to adopt her, feeling sorry for her. Sally also admits to having a tail. One of her best achievements is that she managed to do 100 jump ropes.

Elzar

(voiced by John DiMaggio) - A famous four-armed Neptunian chef, with his own New New York restaurant ("Elzar's Fine Cuisine", a regular set-piece in the series), and television show. Elzar is a parody of the celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, while his physique is a nod to the four-armed television chef of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Bender adores Elzar's cooking, though once he challenged him to an Iron Cook battle (and "won" - but Bender refused the title of "Iron Cook," instead accepting "Zinc Saucier", which he made up, and which came with double prize money). Elzar is crass and unpleasant, and has a very high opinion of himself. He never passes up an opportunity to bilk money from his customers, and is so miserly that he won't offer complimentary bread with a meal unless he's squashed a cockroach with it first. Elzar's favorite cooking implement is his spice weasel, a rodent-like creature which propels a cloud of spices from its snout upon having its body squeezed, which he uses to "knock it up a notch", with his customary "BAM!". Both "kick it up a notch" and "BAM!" are catchphrases of Emeril Lagasse.

Cubert Farnsworth

(voiced by Kath Soucie) - Professor Hubert Farnsworth's clone, created from a growth on the Professor's back in 2989. He differs from the Professor in appearance due to his nose being squashed up against the wall of his cloning tube from being left there too long. Cubert was unveiled to the crew in 3001. Cubert is pompous, arrogant, and very rude to the other members of Planet Express. Unsurprisingly, he is unpopular. His sayings include, "That's preposterous!" and "No, that's what being a magical elf is all about." Cubert is seen in only a few episodes, due to his attending a boarding school, along with Hermes' son Dwight. According to the DVD commentaries he was the first character to be designed. Cubert is a veiled parody of Wesley Crusher and his name is a reference to the arcade game Q*bert.

Philip J. Fry II

Nephew and namesake of Philip J. Fry, Philip J. Fry II owned the seven-leaf clover found by his uncle in the 1980s. The clover ensured that he was the luckiest man in history. His achievements included a string of number one hits, a fling with an Icelandic singer-supermodel, and striking oil in the bathroom of the mansion that he won in the lottery. The achievement he’s most famous for, though, is being the first man on Mars.

Philip Fry II was named in honor of Fry; based on his accomplishments, his personality seems to be very much like his namesake, however he looks identical to Yancy, his father. This led Fry, finding information about Philip Fry II, to believe Yancy had usurped his identity after he was frozen.

Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Fry's great-great-great-...-great-nephew, is presumably a direct descendant of Philip J. Fry II, since Fry's only sibling was Yancy, and as far as is known Philip J. Fry II was Yancy's only child.

Yancy Fry Jr.

(voiced by Tom Kenny) - Born in 1971, Yancy is the elder brother of Philip J. Fry, and father of Philip J. Fry II. In the flashback scenes in "The Luck of the Fryrish", a great deal of sibling rivalry is shown between Yancy and Fry, including fierce competition in breakdancing and basketball, though there was clearly a great deal of love as well. Some time after New Year's Eve 1999 (when Fry becomes locked in a cryogenic tube, unknown to his family), an adult Yancy is preparing for his wedding and finds and keeps an amateurish sketch of a rocket ship drawn by Fry. Later, he names his newborn son after Fry and announces he misses his brother every day. In "Anthology of Interest II" Fry reveals that Yancy used to help him win Space Invaders.

"Fishy" Joe Gillman

Gillman, or "Fishy Joe", is the owner of the "Fishy Joe's" chain of seafood restaurants (one-time vendor of "Popplers") and "Family Bros. Pizza". He was indifferent to Popplers being sentient, even as his restaurant chain served them by the billions. He later purchased a Cygnoid pizza stand for $100,000, impressed by their unusual recipes ("A Leela of Her Own").

Horrible Gelatinous Blob

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) A three-eyed green translucent ill-tempered alien. He contemptuously refers to humanoids as "solids", and ridicules their one-way digestive system. He first appeared in a Planet Express television ad in " The Series Has Landed" in which he devoured an employee who used a rival delivery company. He then "rewarded" an employee who used Planet Express by devouring him as well. He also makes a brief appearance in "The Problem with Popplers" as a customer at Fishy Joe's. Later, he is one of the unsatisfied customers on Cubert's and Dwight's paper route. He once beat Hermes and Professor Farnsworth close to death, though he later apologized. Mr. Blob is later revealed to be a stock trader at the InterGalactic Stock Exchange, in orbit around Earth. He was one of the fathers in FART on the episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV".

He has a son who regularly bullies Cubert and Dwight, once using a miniature black hole to reduce their lunches to a singularity.

Two members of his species are briefly shown embracing within sight of the Eiffel Tower in the episode "Love and Rocket", which has a Valentine's Day theme.

Persons and objects devoured by the Horrible Gelatinous Blob (or others of his species) can be seen suspended within his protoplasm. The process of recovery is implied but unclear.

Judging by his appearance and behavior, HGB most likely originated from the likewise malevolent and man eating "Space Mutants" from Matt Groening's The Simpsons.

Hyperchicken

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - A 6-foot-plus blue-green rooster attorney with a pince-nez perched on his beak. He features a strong Southern (American) accent, reminiscent of Andy Griffith, Matlock, or especially Foghorn Leghorn.

He is a terrible lawyer, and routinely loses cases for the main characters. He keeps his children in a suitcase and has been seen crowing on top of a courthouse. He was once hired while imprisoned and awaiting a trial for incompetence. In one case, simply hiring him as a legal representative was enough grounds for Judge Whitey to accept a plea of insanity from Fry and Bender. Hyperchicken also becomes very agitated if the word "badger" is mentioned.

The character may also be a play on the literary character of Atticus Finch, or even a "replacement" of Lionel Hutz or Gil from The Simpsons.

Hypnotoad

A large toad which is possibly alien, mutated, and/or genetically engineered, it has oscillating multicolored eyes, and emits a strange humming sound. The sound, called "Angry Machine," was used as a temporary sound by the show's animators, and suited the Hypnotoad animation so much that it was used in the actual episode ("The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"), in which the Toad used its hypnotic powers to easily win a pet competition. The Hypnotoad has the power to hypnotize anyone it wants at will. It seems that the Hypnotoad is unique, or that it is perhaps the only example of its species living on Earth. In "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV", it is revealed that the Hypnotoad stars in its own television show, Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, which consists entirely of a steady shot of the Hypnotoad staring at the camera. Fry claims that the show "has been going downhill since season three". The show's title is a reference to the sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. The Hypnotoad is purportedly series creator Matt Groening's favorite character on Futurama.

It is possible that the Hypnotoad is a reference to the Dnyarri, or "Talking Pets", a race of powerful telepath toad creatures from the Star Control video game series, each member of which was powerful enough to mind-control an entire planet full of sentient beings.

In the episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch", a creature with eyes similar to Hypnotoad's can be seen on Kif's homeworld. Although unlikely, this could be a clue to Hypnotoad's origins.

Linda

(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - Morbo's human co-anchor, she seems to be blissfully unaware of his hatred for humanity, often giggling absentmindedly in classically unaware news anchor fashion, as Morbo says things like "Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!" (on Richard Nixon's election). Linda appears to be vapid and unintelligent, providing comic relief to Morbo's violent comments. She also flashed her chest to Zapp Brannigan in exchange for some beads on Freedom Day. Linda was most likely inspired by Mary Hart of the celebrity news program Entertainment Tonight.

Lrrr

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei VIII, located 1,000 light years from Earth. On numerous occasions Lrrr has threatened to destroy the Earth as a whole, as well as members of the Planet Express crew personally. Lrrr is something of a parody of all cliched "green-skinned space invaders." His wife is named Ndnd (voiced by Tress MacNeille), and the two appear to enjoy a relationship which goes through periodic love-hate cycles. Lrrr and his inner circle are devout fans of 20th- and 21st-century Earth television, except for animated shows. He purchased Fry's nose on the black market as an aphrodisiac named "Human Horn" in the episode "Spanish Fry". Whenever he is seen onscreen, Lrrr tries to appear threatening and powerful, but his intimidating appearance is always foiled by him performing some banal and humorous activity, such as adjusting a slanted painting or scratching his rear on live television. His catchphrase is "I am Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei VIII!" A young Omicronian named Jrrr may be his and Ndnd's son.

Lrrr also appeared in a fantasy sequence in "Anthology of Interest II" as the ruler of planet Nintenduu 64.

Hattie McDoogal

Hattie McDoogal (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is the resident crotchety-old-lady of the Futurama universe. She lives alone with her cat in New New York. Her wardrobe always consists of her pink nightgown and slippers. She also has a lazy eye. Frequently she likes to use nonsense words and phrases such as "whatcha-ma-call-it", "kerjiggers", and "thingy" to refer to different objects and people.

Hattie was for a brief time the landlady of Philip J. Fry and Bender ("I, Roommate") and once hired Kif Kroker, then unemployed, as a male prostitute ("Brannigan Begin Again"). She owns one share of stock of the Planet Express Delivery company ("Future Stock").

She is comparable to the crazy cat lady from The Simpsons. Her surname was revealed in Futurama Comics #5.

Michelle

(voiced by Kath Soucie, Sarah Silverman) Michelle is Fry's girlfriend from the 20th century. She appears in the first episode Space Pilot 3000, casually dumping Fry on New Year's Eve, 1999, shortly before he makes a pizza delivery to a cryogenics company and falls into a freezer tube, where he would remain for 1000 years. She had a rough few years with the guy she left Fry for, all the while not knowing what had happened to Fry, and coincidentally chose to have herself frozen for 1000 years as well ("The Cryonic Woman"). Though her relationship with Fry resumed, Michelle had trouble adjusting to the 31st century, particularly the monster-like aliens and creatures. Ultimately, she left Fry for another long-term cryogenic customer; Pauly Shore.

Michelle's hair was originally black, but later appearances show it as brown. Michelle's mother's name was Beth, who criticized Fry behind his back. Michelle is seen grieving for Fry, along with some of Fry's other lovers (including a radiator), at his funeral in "The Sting".

Morbo

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - A news monster for √2 News, Entertainment and Alien Invasion Tonight, Good Morning Earth, and other shows on the √2 Television Network. Morbo is actually an advance scout for an alien invasion, but does not bother to be subtle about it and drops obvious hints of his species' violent invasion plans, and frequently expresses his contempt for humanity. Morbo has a great love for Lipps Inc's song "Funkytown". He apparently has something hideous where his chest is. The only known time he ever displayed an uncharacteristic moment was in "The 30% Iron Chef"; he described Bender's food as proving that hideous things can be beautiful, and breaks down into tears. Morbo is, interestingly (although perhaps not surprisingly), good friends with President Richard Nixon's head. He has not made an appearance without mentioning either how Earth will be destroyed or his hatred for humanity. As a TV host who hates humans, he often makes comments such as:

"Puny earthlings! My race will destroy you!"
"Puny earthlings were shocked today to learn that a ball of garbage will destroy their pathetic city of New New York."
"Pathetic humans, prepare to write down the recipe!"
"Morbo demands comments!"
"Kittens give Morbo gas."
"Greetings, pathetic host!"
"All humans are vermin in the eyes of Morbo!"
"Morbo congratulates our gargantuan cyborg president. May death come quickly to his enemies!"
"So… humans have easily injured knees. My race will find this information very useful indeed. Mwahwahahahaha!"
(Introducing presidency election candidates):"Puny human number one! Puny human number two! And Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon."
"Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat." (Linda)"It's a T. It goes tuh." (Morbo) "Hello, little man... I will destroy you!" (They were both under the influence of the Brainspawn's stupefaction field.)
"Windmills do not work that way! Goodnight!" (referring to a comment made by Linda, a fellow newsreader, that the windmills would keep the turtles cool)
"Across the galaxy, my people are completing a mighty space fleet that will exterminate the human race! But first, this news from 'Tinsel Town'."
"At the risk of editorializing, this reporter welcomes the death of the pathetic human species." (from the Futurama video game, in response to Mother buying the world)
"Scrumptious! Morbo will store this in his sack for future digestion!" (In response to Elzar's cooking)

Morbo's character design is based on the aliens from the 1957 science fiction movie Invasion of the Saucer Men. He has a wife (named Fawn) of the same species, referenced in "The 30% Iron Chef" and seen briefly in "Three Hundred Big Boys" and "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings". Morbo speaks to her with his characteristic hostility, but she pays no attention. He refers to his family as "belligerent and numerous".

Randy Munchnik

(voiced by John DiMaggio) A very effeminate man who owns a jewelry store. Randy is also a homosexual, and when the polar ice caps melted ("Crimes of the Hot"), he built an ark and filled it with same-sex animal couples. He claims there are "Parts of the Bible I like, and parts I don't like." He lives in a rent controlled apartment. Randy has never been named in the series, though his name is given in DVD commentaries. Randy is actor John DiMaggio's favorite Futurama character. In the DVD commentary for "Three Hundred Big Boys", it is revealed that Randy had a subplot in the episode that had to be cut for time. In the cut scene he and his boyfriend (seen in the picture) argue over how to spend their tax refunds. They resolve the argument by tossing both $300 bills into the fireplace, deciding love is more important than money.

Nibblonians

The Nibblonians are powerful race from the Planet Eternium, which is located in the center of the universe. According to them, their race is ancient and powerful, because when the universe was formed with the Big Bang, their breed was already 17 years old. They are the arch enemy of the Brainspawn. They believe Fry is the only hope of the universe and stopping the Brain Spawn. They have appeared in the episodes The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, and The Why of Fry. The three main Nibblonians are Nibbler, Ken, and Fiona.

Ken

(Voiced by Frank Welker) Ken is one of the two main male Nibblonians. His main difference in appearance with Nibbler is he slightly has a larger head. He believes that earth is the homeworld of "the pizza bagel". He also enjoys being petted.

Fiona

(Voiced by Tress MacNeille) Fiona is the main Female Nibblonian. She is never seen without her orange bow on her eyestalk. Both Ken and Fiona believe Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock. She sometimes calls Nibbler "Niggle-Snoosh."

Mr. Panucci

(voiced by John DiMaggio) – the owner of Panucci's Pizza, the New York restaurant where Fry worked in the 20th century. He had little regard for hygiene in his pizzeria; despite this, Stephen Hawking was a frequent customer according to "Anthology of Interest I". After Fry was frozen Mr. Panucci continued at the pizzeria and tended to Fry’s dog, Seymour.

Mr. Panucci is one of the few recurring characters who doesn't appear in the 31st century. His skin color is also reminiscent of characters on The Simpsons.

Mayor C. Randall Poopenmayer

(voiced by David Herman) - the Mayor of New New York has appeared in many episodes, normally when his city is in grave danger, such as in the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage". His Mayoral duties include execution of condemned prisoners, a duty we see him try to perform in "A Tale of Two Santas". That episode also showed that he could be fooled into believing that Dr. Zoidberg was Jesus.

Morgan Proctor

(Voiced by Nora Dunn) Morgan Proctor is a rank 19 bureaucrat. She appears in the episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" when she is sent to inspect Hermes for possible promotion. However, the inspection did not go well, and after Hermes almost commits suicide, she sends him on paid vacation ('the worst penalty possible for a bureaucrat') and takes over as bureaucrat of Planet Express. She had a brief affair with Fry, as he is 'such a untidy slob unlike the neat freaks she is surrounded by all the time'. When Bender finds out, she removes his personality and sends it to be filed in "the master pile" of the Central Bureaucracy, where it will presumably be untouched for years, only to see a newly-returned Hermes re-organise 'the master pile' within 5 minutes. She is subsequently demoted when Hermes uncovers an incorrectly-stamped form from her prom date. She is seen along with other of Fry's ex-girlfriends at his funeral in the episode "The Sting".

Sal

(voiced by John DiMaggio) - A recurring generic surly, overweight, blue-collar worker with a thick Bronx accent. His first appearance is as a janitor on the moon in " The Series Has Landed", servicing the machines in the amusement park. He has appeared many times since, always employed in a tedious job which he does not do well ("Whats do I looks like, a guy who's not lazy?"). Some fans have speculated that there are numerous Sals, all cloned from the original, which would account for his showing up working many jobs. Either that, or he simply gets fired/resigns and finds new employment on a regular basis. Even among the series' writers, there is confusion on the matter. He also pluralizes things that needn't be pluralized, ("He's busteds, gets hims outta heres") and vice versa (Whoas! Cripe!). His numerous jobs include:

Janitor in Luna Park (" The Series Has Landed")
Bus driver ("Put Your Head on My Shoulders")
Cleaner ("The Honking")
Tattooed art exhibit on loan from the Louvre ("The Cryonic Woman")
Truck driver/construction worker ("Parasites Lost")
Factory foreman ("Bendless Love")
Newspaper-truck driver ("The Route of All Evil")
Owner-operator of Sal's Wrecking Co ("I Dated a Robot")
Demolition worker ("A Pharaoh to Remember")
Sewage treatment worker ("Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles")

Scruffy

(voiced by David Herman) - The Planet Express janitor. A recurring joke is that because he interacts so little with the rest of the employees, nobody remembers ever seeing him before. In "Future Stock", it is revealed that he has vast holdings of Planet Express stock. He is lazy and can usually be found in the basement of the building, watching the boiler (but never actually fixing it) and reading an edition of Zero-G Juggs or National Pornographic (a reference to National Geographic magazine). In the Futurama video game, he is asleep in the (flooded) basement of Planet Express with a dirty magazine. Frequently refers to himself in the third person and speaks in a voice reminiscent of Karl Childers, the protagonist of the movie Sling Blade. In later episodes it is revealed that Scruffy is actually quite intelligent and can concoct brilliant plans almost immediately. Scruffy is an ex-con, stating: "Prison ain't so bad. You can lift weights and make sangria in the terlet. 'Course it's shank or be shanked."

Sewer Mutants

Years of pollution poured into the sewers under New New York have created a society of mutants. They have established schools and churches in an effort at normalcy and are forbidden to travel to the surface without special permission. They first appear in "I Second That Emotion", though the underground ruins of Old New York (as well as several creatures who may have been nonhumanoid mutants) are seen as early as "Space Pilot 3000".

Dwayne

(Voiced by David Herman) - Dwayne is a mutant with two noses and a catastrophically large forehead. He is fond of challenging people's understandings of practically everything, for example claiming that the humans may be living in the sewer of a great civilization above them (which is disproven quickly, what with the sky and all). Dwayne is a teacher at Martin Luther Thing Jr. High School (Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles), and has been known to play the guitar with minimal provocation. He also appears to be the resident folklore expert.

Raoul

(Voiced by Maurice LaMarche)- Raoul is the democratically elected leader of the sewer mutants, his official title being "Supreme Mutant". His most notable mutation is a third arm, which has grown in place of his right ear. Accordingly, he is somewhat hard of hearing. However, in "Leela's Homeworld", he is shown to have two ears. Is romantically involved with (and possibly married to) Vyolet.

Vyolet

(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - A mutant with gills and a generally reptillian appearance, Vyolet has the most appearances of any mutant besides Leela, because she reacts whenever something is thrown in a gutter. She believes Barbie dolls portray an unrealistic standard of beauty. In the episode "Leela's Homeworld", Bender ruined her wedding dress indicating that following that episode she was married, most likely to Raoul.

Turanga Morris

(voiced by David Herman) - Father of Planet Express spaceship captain Turanga Leela. A mutant who lives in the sewer, he has one eye, a vertical mouth, and sheds his skin. Very irresponsible; encourages the consumption of alcohol by practically everybody: "No beer until you finish your tequila!"

Turanga Munda

(voiced by Tress MacNeille) - Mother of Planet Express spaceship captain Turanga Leela. She has one eye, a lion tail, and octopus tentacles in place of arms, as well as purple hair. Has a Ph.D in Exolinguistics, which enabled her to write the indecipherable note left with Leela at the Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium to convince them that she was an alien, which would allow her to live a more comfortable life on the surface.

Seymour

Fry's 20th-century dog, first appearing in the episode "Jurassic Bark". Fry found the hungry dog circa 1998 on the streets of New York and befriended him, eventually teaching him to bark/sing Walking on Sunshine. When Fry later fell into a cryogenics tube, where he would remain for 1000 years, Seymour led members of Fry's family to the cryogenics laboratory but could not convince them to examine the tube. They dragged Seymour away.

Seymour's fossilized remains were found by Fry in the 31st century. Professor Farnsworth had the technology to extract DNA from the remains and create a clone of Seymour, complete with memories, but Fry declined, reasoning that since the readings indicated Seymour had lived to the age of 15, 12 years after Fry was frozen, Seymour must have formed new memories and eventually forgotten Fry. In reality, Seymour had waited outside Panucci's Pizza for Fry's return every day until he died.

Seymour's remains appear briefly at Fry's funeral in "The Sting".

Smitty

(voiced by Billy West) - Policeman in New New York. His partner is URL. Sometimes seen with a lightsaber that he uses as a nightstick. He appears primarily in the episode "Space Pilot 3000", and later in the episode "I, Roommate", but is in about every episode where police are involved. In "A Tale of Two Santas", it is revealed that he had been fired from his job, but anticipated reinstatement following his capture of Bender, whom he and URL mistook for Robot Santa.

Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate

(voiced by Phil LaMarr) - Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate is Captain of the Globetrotters and Senior Lecturer in Physics at Globetrotter University. After challenging and defeating Earth in a game of basketball, Tate helps Professor Farnsworth to restabilize time in "Time Keeps on Slippin'", unfortunately his "showboating" math turned out to be incorrect. He also served as one of the guest judges in the Iron Cook competition in "The 30% Iron Chef". He also appears briefly in "Less Than Hero". It is revealed in A Taste of Freedom that Tate's home planet the "Globetrotter Homeworld" has an embassy on Earth between the Neutral Planet embassy and the Klingon Embassy.

Terry

(voiced by David Herman) - In the future, Terry works at the cryonics lab (Applied Cryogenics) where Fry was frozen in the year 2000. He is the first to greet Fry after he is unfrozen with his usual greeting "Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!". He feels this dramatic bit is a fine way to greet de-frostees, though Fry has his doubts. He later appears in the episodes "The Cryonic Woman", teaching Fry about working in the lab, and again in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", invited (along with other Applied Cryogenics employees) by Leela to a poker game at Planet Express. He also attends Fry's funeral in "The Sting" yelling "Farewell, from the world of Tomorrow!" at Fry's coffin.

Mr. Vogel

Mr Vogel seems to be the owner and only worker at Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium. He is featured in The Cyber House Rules when he trys to get Fry to adopt some of the orphans. He has stated that he has a photographic memory. It is seen in multiple episodes that he is a level 135 bureaucrat and in Leela's Homeworld it is shown that his rank hasn't changed since before he found Leela as a baby. He also makes an appearance in The Why of Fry.

Waterfall Family

Members of the Waterfall family represent left-wing politics. Three have played major guest roles, all voiced by Phil Hendrie and all dying in comically violent ways.

Free Waterfall Jr.

A stereotypical hippie, vegetarian, environmentalist "treehugger", and spokesman for Mankind for Ethical Animal Treatment (M.E.A.T.) He strongly objected to the eating of popplers and was himself eaten by Lrrr of Omicron Persei VIII, promptly sending Lrrr on an experience not dissimilar to a drug trip ("The Problem with Popplers"). He had extremely low tolerance for beliefs that are not congruous with his own: "You're all crazy, shut up, let me talk."

Dying words: "This is not happening."

Free Waterfall Sr.

A nature activist and father of Free Waterfall Jr. A senior member of Penguins Unlimited, he led the organization in an effort to save a penguin colony on Pluto after a dark matter spill threatened their habitat, in a manner analogous to an oil spill. He is strong in his environmental beliefs, even discouraging clapping as it kills spores. He frequently said that something is nature's something else. For example: "If you get cold, rub your skin with some permafrost; that's nature's long johns." He was eventually pecked to death (and presumably eaten) by angered penguins ("The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz").

Dying words: "Make sure they use every part of my body!"

Old Man Waterfall

A bisexual polygamist civil-rights lawyer and space war veteran who has lost many body parts on many planets ("Name a body part and a planet, and I've taken a bullet in it, on it!"). He vowed to avenge his son, Free Waterfall Sr., when he was killed by penguins. He is also the grandfather of Free Waterfall Jr.

He unsuccessfully defended Dr. Zoidberg's constitutional right to eat a flag (though managed to secure constitutional protection for polygamy) and died after being crushed by the giant metal claw of the Decapodian Mobile Oppression Palace ("A Taste of Freedom"). A young woman (unnamed but credited as "Frida Waterfall" and also voiced by Phil Hendrie) ran from the crowd, calling him "Great-Grandfather" and blaming his death on the "men-o-centric male-ocracy", suggesting the Waterfall family tradition would continue.

Dying words: "I request a Satanic funeral."

Professor Ogden Wernstrom

(voiced by David Herman) - Rival of Professor Farnsworth (who usually greets Ogden with a contemptful "Wernstrom!") who resents the "A-" grade Farnsworth gave him for sloppy penmanship when Wernstrom was completing his senior year in 2900. Wernstrom swore revenge, "even if it takes ^* a hundred years!" In 3000, Wernstrom finally achieved his goal when Wernstrom beat Farnsworth in the Annual Inventors' Symposium, publicly giving Farnsworth's Smell-o-scope an "A - -".

Despite this condemnation, the Smell-o-scope proved essential in saving the Earth from a giant mass of waste in orbit from the 21st Century. Wernstrom was given the task of stopping the great mass of trash when Farnsworth's plan, to blow it up with a timed bomb, failed when he incorrectly wired the timer. For his cooperation, Wernstrom demanded and received tenure, a big research grant, a lab, and five graduate students (at least three of them Chinese by his request). He then abandoned the city of New New York to its doom (since he had tenure, he couldn't be fired). Wernstrom's Inventors' Symposium award was stripped from him after Farnsworth and the Planet Express crew came up with a second plan, which managed to save New New York, thus prompting another promise of revenge, "even if it takes ^* another hundred years!"

Wernstrom also appears at the Professor's 150th birthday party ("A Clone of My Own") and in the audience of the Nobel Prize ceremony ("Anthology of Interest II"). He later devises a plan to combat global warming with a giant space mirror in "Crimes of the Hot", but after this goes awry he teams up with President Nixon's Head to use the mirror to deactivate every robot on Earth - the robots having been revealed as the source of greenhouse gasses. His final appearance was in "Obsoletely Fabulous" presenting his killbot at Roboticon 3003; He managed to get into a fistfight with Professor Farnsworth over whose killbot was better. The killbots were disgusted by this display of violence and went for a paddleboat ride together.

Judge Ron Whitey

(voiced by Billy West) – Judge at "Famous Original Ray's Superior Court", who presided over most of the court cases where the main characters appear. In "A Tale of Two Santas" he sentenced Bender to death, he annulled Fry and Leela's marriage in "Time Keeps on Slippin'" and in "Insane in the Mainframe" he sent Fry and Bender to the Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. Judge Whitey is very rich and seems to lack morals, and, in "Three Hundred Big Boys", he tells a joke about having cut off his butler's foot (a reference to the television special Roots).

Whitey is preoccupied with money and wealth, but did not know what a bank was until his caddy/chauffeur informed him that "a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested." Judge Whitey previously ruled that "the crime of being poor" was a mental illness. He also states in that episode that "the only poor people I want to hear about are the people who tend to my pores at the spa".

Leo and Inez Wong

(Leo Wong, voiced by Billy West and Inez Wong, voiced by Lauren Tom) – the very wealthy but meddlesome parents of Amy Wong. They own the entire western hemisphere of Mars (the best hemisphere), where they have a buggalo ranch. Throughout the series Leo and Inez are often seen pestering Amy about their lack of grandchildren and meddling in her love life, trying to find a man to father their grandchild. At an undefined point, their ancestor Sir Reginald Wong bought half of Mars from the native Martians for only one bead (a reference to the American legend that Manhattan Island was purchased for a bag of beads). It was later revealed that the bead in question was a gargantuan diamond.

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